I love this! I am Dominican with "hair that strangles air" and I am tired of people telling me that I should "fix" it
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
Highest praise for the goddess Elizabeth Acevedo! Your strength and passion is to be admired! So honored to feature your work on All Def Poetry! #PoetryIsTruth
@gianag2433
8 жыл бұрын
I love this poem sooo much because I'm Dominirican, and my mom ALWAYS pressures me to straighten my hair. But I love my natural Hispanic curls
@nicole3666
6 жыл бұрын
Giana G thats the thing, we get our curls from our african and taino ancestors, NOT the spanish
@nocturnenoble2468
8 жыл бұрын
Truth so pure, so strong, it makes me ache. Beautifully emoted, your eloquence and courage is inspiring, thank you!
@aliciadominguez4270
8 жыл бұрын
I love this. I'm Panamanian and I have big curly hair.
@lisacobr
8 жыл бұрын
Gracias mami! You dropped the mic on that!
@yahspoetyahu-thepoeticword7322
7 жыл бұрын
From one poet to another those were some very POWERFUL lyrics!!!👍😮
@alist5983
9 жыл бұрын
*So deep and relatable. Thank you*
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
A list Thank You for watching!
@joseviera2541
9 жыл бұрын
That's you In the bubble pic A list?
@alist5983
9 жыл бұрын
jose viera Yes. Why?
@joseviera2541
9 жыл бұрын
You're sexy
@BlueBabyAkaAj
7 жыл бұрын
My mother forces me to straighten my hair. It causes me alot of stress. I love my kinks, coils and curls. Beautiful poem
@LinzeyLiNO
9 жыл бұрын
yes yes living with our roots and expressing our feelings uniting as black people of all beautiful complexions
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
+LinzeyLiN O Thanks for watching!
@morganlee9767
8 жыл бұрын
MAN!!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING.
@20destinyhenderson
7 жыл бұрын
hands raised *finger snaps* The sista is on point ... Love your kinky,curly,coily,wavy hair ladies !
@AbruvanamedSly
9 жыл бұрын
Word!
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
Abruvanamed Sly Yasssssss! Elizabeth is AMAZING!
@gloriaadames5168
9 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful!!! Thanks for posting!! Thank you Elizabeth!!
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
GLORIA ADAMES Thanks for watching!
@thekaerichtexas
9 жыл бұрын
That was great
@R.G.Willmore
8 жыл бұрын
All I can say is WOW, the Sista is so so deeo!!
@tebogobakgakgodi5688
8 жыл бұрын
I love,love this poem!!.#KeepingMyAfricanKinks
@barrykhadidiatou357
8 жыл бұрын
I feel so blessed to be African, Thank you!! 💖
@AllDefPoetry
8 жыл бұрын
+khadidiatou B Thanks for watching!
@user-ct8xt8ye5c
2 жыл бұрын
...she's Spanish.
@constancefleur7275
2 жыл бұрын
@@user-ct8xt8ye5c it don’t matter
@SBWilson1023
9 жыл бұрын
Awwwsome!!!!!!
@AllDefPoetry
9 жыл бұрын
+SBWilson1023 Thanks for watching!
@eniola988
9 жыл бұрын
Slayed!
@Dahwun-h7z
9 ай бұрын
She is the truth
@mllecordova
7 жыл бұрын
y mother tells me to fix my hair. And by “fix,” she means straighten. She means whiten. But how do you fix this ship-wrecked history of hair? The true meaning of stranded, when trusses held tight like African cousins in ship bellies, did they imagine that their great grand-children would look like us, and would hate them how we do? Trying to find ways to erase them out of our skin, iron them out of our hair, this wild tangle of hair that strangles air. You call them wild curls. I call them breathing. Ancestors spiraling. Can’t you see them in this wet hair that waves like hello? They say Dominicans can do the best hair. I mean they wash, set, flatten the spring in any loc - but what they mean is we’re the best at swallowing amnesia, in a cup of [Spanish], dreaming because we’d rather do that than live in this reality, caught between orange juice and milk, between reflections of the sun and whiteness. What they mean is, “Why would you date a black man?” What they mean is, “[Spanish]” What they mean is, “Why would two oppressed people come together? It’s two times the trouble.” What they really mean is, “Have you thought of your daughter’s hair?” And I don’t tell them that we love like sugar cane, brown skin, pale flesh, meshed in pure sweetness. The children of children of fields. Our bodies curve into one another like an echo, and I let my curtain of curls blanket us from the world, how our children will be beautiful. Of dust skin, and diamond eyes. Hair, a reclamation. How I will break pride down their back so from the moment they leave the womb they will be born in love with themselves. Momma that tells me to fix my hair, and so many words remain unspoken. Because all I can reply is, “You can’t fix what was never broken.”
@20destinyhenderson
7 жыл бұрын
Fabiola Cordova tht was so helpful !
@miriamfrohriep3239
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@JessicaCabreja
7 жыл бұрын
love thisss
@dei-wan-grey3888
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome Share
@michaelmartinez7025
7 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah. Preach, pa que sepan.
@NIM11a
8 жыл бұрын
Gracias a La Misericordia!
@rosannalebron4279
7 жыл бұрын
My mom didn't know why I am the only one of all my sisters that have very tight curls. My sisters all have straight fine hair. But mine was always tight and way to curly. She permed it when I was 5 when it reached down my waist. My mom didn't know what to do with it so she "fixed" it. Now at 17 years old I am natural for 6 months and I love my fro. My mom still pressures me to perm it or flat iron it. My curls are beautiful and tight. Some people make fun of me for having "Jew curls". I love my Afro. Soy afro latina and proud.
@faithpayton2900
8 жыл бұрын
BOOM..!!!
@poetofpraiseonay7225
9 жыл бұрын
Pen up, to you queen!
@jessieortega7888
7 жыл бұрын
💡💡🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@medusatruths1066
7 жыл бұрын
I wanna cry I've felt this way for so long. Cos my grandmas Dominican Latina and my dads mixed w "good hair" like how I have "good hair" bc it's soft but it's 4b & kinky so I had a fear my kids won't have "good hair" if their dads hair isn't better than mine. And I've been building a relationship w my grandma and I've felt so ashamed knowing she created me and I have her hair but it's like I'm spitting in her face as if her having AFRO Latina babies was wrong after all... 😔
@azwifheli9451
8 жыл бұрын
what's the name of the poet at the end?
@loreleigeyerlamb2567
4 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was so weird when people tell girls with curly/kinky hair to straighten it. Why are you butting in on other people's business? Worry about your own hair.
@cynthiapickett5017
6 жыл бұрын
Some needed expression.
@hispanicchad8393
3 жыл бұрын
Ok choose not to be taken seriously in the real world
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